Reading Strategies

Pre-Reading
In and out of the text

• Scanning the text

- 6 step start up

• Building Background Knowledge

- Prior knowledge on topic
- Prior knowledge on author
- Content Vocabulary
- theme vocabulary

During Reading

• Marking the Text
• Writing in the Margins

- Connections
- text to text
- text to world
- text to self
- Clarifying
- Questioning
- Summarizing
- Drawing

Post- Reading

• Graphic Organizer (Visual Representation)
• Recreating Texts through:

- Verbal presentation
- Written responses
- Visual recreation
- Other modality